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J. M. Barrie quote: "It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent."
It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent. J. M. Barrie
Maurice Merleau-Ponty quote: "The body is our general medium for having a world."
The body is our general medium for having a world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. Anne Bronte
Clarence Day quote: "Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us,..."
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. Clarence Day
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea. Umberto Eco
Zhuangzi quote: "Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a..."
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him? Zhuangzi
I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place. Bill Bryson
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Albert Hofmann
Rick Warren quote: "The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no..."
The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you. Rick Warren
Something is going to happen, Laura thought. She was going to be kissed. On one side of a kiss was childhood, sunshine, innocence, toys and, on the other, people embracing, darkness, passion and the admittance of a person who, no matter how loved, must always have a quality of otherness, not only to her confidence, but somehow inside her sealing skin. Margaret Mahy
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught. Boris Pasternak
Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and... Charles Dickens
Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections. Jonathan Edwards
Herman Hesse quote: "We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is..."
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. Herman Hesse
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry... Boris Johnson

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